How to throw a bridal shower

Well, we are gearing up for wedding #2 in as many years here in the Goulet household. A few weekends ago, my daughter, Kayla and I threw a bridal shower for my other daughter, Ashley. I was feeling a little out of shower world, since it’s been a long time since I’ve attending bridal showers, but with Kayla’s help as to what’s current for the younger generation, I think we pulled off a great shower.

First off, how can you throw a shower without visiting Pinterest? Tons of ideas and shortcuts for what to do, serve, eat and decorate. We both added to our Pinterest board and lol, we discovered we had both pinned alot of the same images, so great that we were both on the same page.

I was looking for an inexpensive and easy to make takeaway for the shower guests and Pinterest didn’t disappoint. We made these little hand scrubs, made with only two ingredients, sugar and lavender dish soap, perfect for gardening season. I found all the supplies needed at the Dollarama, Michaels and the grocery store. You can find the link to the recipe on my Pinterest board, link above.

And here we are in the process of making them. It only took the two of us a few hours one evening.

The hardest part was threading the thin purple ribbon through the tiny labels, but here’s a tip, a sharp toothpick worked like a charm.

I added in a little plastic silver spoon so you can just scoop out a little of the scrub at a time.

And here they are all ready for the guests to grab as they leave.

We both liked the idea of a Mimosa bar, with champagne and a selection of juices, perrier and fresh fruit. This was a great crowd pleaser, if you didn’t want to imbibe, then you could have the perrier or juices on their own, garnished with fruit in a pretty champagne flute.

We had a ton of help with the food from the shower guests and it all came together beautifully.

And a family friend, made the gorgeous cupcakes, in the wedding colours of dark purple, cream and gold.

Aren’t they adorable and we added in little tags that said, “I do”.

We played a few shower games and Kayla suggested that we have a wedding theme photo booth for some fun and silly photos. It was well used, and all you need is:

a plain wall

some decorations,

a tripod,

a camera with a timer, and

some silly props, we got ours at a party store and Dollarama.

Here’s some of the silly results.

It was a great way to spend an afternoon with a bunch of wonderful people!